On Mar 15, 2011, at 8:30 AM, Philip Brown wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> wrote: >> .... >> >> I plan to do the update in one large swoop. >> >> Thoughts? >> > > These are all good changes. The only potential issue, is in somehow > alerting maintainers on rebuild of a package, "Hey, the behaviour has > changed since this was last built" > > If gar was changed to be modeled after usual software practices.. with > explicit "releases"... this would be trivial. > Then each recipe could trivially contain some kind of [last built for > GAR v#] marker, and there could be a warning when the gar version is > bumped. > > Note also, that it would not be desirable to have a warning each and > every time something is touched in gar; only changes that justify > bumping the "gar release version" number.
I like this idea. It's currently a bit tough to tell when a big change in behavior to GAR is made. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
